"It's not only that we think we're the best group in the world, it's just that in our minds we're so much better than whoever is number two." - Robert Plant, _Hit_Parader_, 1974.
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Monday, 31 January 2011 12:56 |
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It’s time to turn the noise all the way up to eleven in our lead up to the Grammy Awards as we take a look at the category for Best Hard Rock Performance.
The category this year is largely dominated by the guitar-shredding veterans who have been there and done it many times before.
Last.fm Trends looks at who might come out on top come the night of February 13th.
The winner of the category last year was AC/DC with their track “War Machine”. Also amongst the nominees then was Alice in Chains for their track “Check My Brain”. Nominated again this year for “A Looking In View”, their odds don’t look too bad when compared to the other nominees’ scrobble counts on Last.fm.
Two of the nominees, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots, have won the award before, however their low scrobble counts for their tracks “Black Rain” (45,787 total scrobbles) and “Between The Lines (96,700 total scrobbles), respectively, don’t bode well for them this year.
It is the supergroup that is Them Crooked Vultures that look to be favorites to pick up the award for their track “New Fang”. Featuring Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters/Nirvana, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, the song has gained 826,125 scrobbles so far, over double the amount of Alice in Chains’ “A Looking In View”.
Make sure to check in with Last.fm Trends every weekday as we run up to the Grammy Awards. You can watch the show on CBS on February 13th.
From: LAST.FM
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant won the Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy in 1999 for their song Most High.
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Which music of Led Zeppelin do like the best?
May 31, 1948 - John Henry Bonham was born at Redditch, Worchestershire
| May 1969 - The band's debut album enters the US Top 10
| May 1969 - Recording sessions for Led Zeppelin II begin
| May 1970 - This month, the band work on new material at Bron-Y-Aur and Headley Grange
| May 3, 1971 - Richard Cole jams on Whole Lotta Love playing congas
| May 1972 - Houses Of The Holy recording sessions on location at Stargroves and Olympic studios
| May 27, 1972 - Warm-up gigs kick off in Holland for an upcoming American tour
| May 4, 1973 - Led Zeppelin gross nearly $250,000 for their performance in Atlanta, GA
| May 5, 1973 - 56,800 attend the second show of the 1973 US tour at Tampa. This sets a record for the largest attendance for a one-act performance, previously held by the Beatlesfor their Shea Stadium show in 1965
| May 10, 1974 - Swan Song Records is officially launched
| May 11, 1974 - Led Zeppelin attend an Elvis concert and are thrilled when Elvis Announces that Led Zeppelin is in the building
| May 10, 1975 - Showco ships their PA system and video screens for the Earls Court shows from Dallas to London
| May 23, 1976 - Page and Plant join Bad Company onstage at the LA Forum
| May 21, 1977 - The Houston Summit claims $500,000 in damages to their venue caused by rowdy fans
| May 1978 - The band reunite at Clearwater Castle to rehearse
| May 22, 1979 - It is officially announce that Led Zeppelin will headline at the Knebworth Festival in August
| May 15, 1980 - After many revisions the European tour dates are finalized and the band is scheduled to open in Germany
| May 15, 1980 - After many revisions the European tour dates are finalized and the band is scheduled to open in Germany
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